Definitions for: Facile


[adj] expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech"
[adj] performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a facile hand"
[adj] arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"



Webster (1913) Definition: Fac"ilea. [L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or
made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F.
facile. Srr Fact, and cf. Faculty.]
1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable
or attainable with little labor.

Order . . . will render the work facile and
delightful. --Evelyn.

2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable;
readily mastered.

The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
--Milton.

3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty,
austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.

I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --B.
Jonson.

4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a
fault; pliant; flexible.

Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost
Paradise, deceived by me. --Milton.

This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so
facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a
keeper on the king's highway. --Prof.
Wilson.

5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he
wields a facile pen. -- Fac"ile-ly, adv. --
Fac"ile*ness, n.

Synonyms: articulate, easy, effortless, eloquent, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, superficial

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